Wed, Aug 5, 2026 · 1:00 PM – 4:00 PM ET

Profile in. Publishing system out.

Three focused hours, six blocks, one outcome. Every block ships finished work the next block builds on — no homework, no draft-review-revise loop, no week-long wait between insight and publication. By 4:00 PM you walk out with 15 publish-ready assets and a 30-minute weekly cadence already on your calendar.

3 hrs
working time
6 blocks
foundation → cadence
15 assets
finished by 4:00
  1. 1:00 PM30 min
    Stage 1

    Foundation — Who you are on the record

    Lock the positioning, three pillars, audience, and proof points every future asset inherits from.

    3 essential tasks
    • 1
      Upload your foundation
      • Capture past posts, talks, and articles as source of truth
      • Lock the bio + LinkedIn URL the system writes from
      • Note Company URL + one competitor URL
      Take-home
      Your evidence base — uploaded, dated, and ready for the engine.
    • 2
      Run the brand assessment
      • Compare positioning vs. 3 named peers
      • Surface the white space your category leaves open
      • Prioritize the opportunities you'll exploit first
      Take-home
      Your Brand Assessment Report — gaps named, white space ranked.
    • 3
      Generate the Brand Blueprint
      • Write the one-sentence positioning that anchors every future asset
      • Pick exactly 3 pillars (not 5, not 7)
      • Define audience: buyers, peers, talent, press
      • Lock the proof points each pillar will reference
      Take-home
      Your Brand Blueprint — the single most important artifact of the day; everything else is downstream.
    Also covered
    Positioning3 content pillarsAudience mapBrand gap analysis
  2. 1:30 PM30 min
    Stage 2

    Voice — Sound like yourself at scale

    Capture your tone, vocabulary, and cadence so every future asset sounds unmistakably like you — not like generic AI.

    3 essential tasks
    • 1
      Capture your voice
      • Train on the past samples uploaded in Block 1
      • Surface the rhythm and vocabulary patterns you can't see in your own writing
      • Lock the voice profile to every future asset
      Take-home
      Your voice — captured and locked. The AI now writes as you.
    • 2
      Generate the three bios
      • Three lengths in one pass, all in the captured voice
      • Built off the Brand Blueprint so every line is on-brand
      • Edit live in the room until you read them out loud and say 'yes, that's me'
      Take-home
      Three bios — copy/paste ready for every context you show up in.
      After the workshop: Replace your LinkedIn About with the medium bio before Block 3 starts.
    • 3
      Generate the headshot set + save your presets
      • Generate exec-grade variations from one source photo
      • Save one preset per pillar: audience + domain + weighting
      • Test a preset on a sample brief — confirm the output stays on-voice
      Take-home
      Your headshot set + three saved presets — every future brief auto-aligns to brand without re-explaining context.
    Also covered
    Voice captureBios (short/medium/long)Headshot variationsPillar presets
  3. 2:00 PM45 min
    Stage 3

    Signature Content — The Authority Trio

    Three publish-ready pieces — one Op-Ed, one POV post, one framework carousel — each doing a different job in your authority engine.

    3 essential tasks
    • 1
      Write the Op-Ed
      • Brief → draft → polish in the captured voice
      • Auto-validate against the Brand Blueprint (this is where agency work usually breaks)
      • Inbound / press / credibility job — the long-form anchor
      Take-home
      Your Op-Ed — publish-ready on your #1 pillar.
    • 2
      Write the POV post
      • Take a stance the category is too polite to take
      • Strip the hedging executives default to
      • Reach / comments / signal-of-conviction job
      Take-home
      Your POV post — publish-ready today.
    • 3
      Build the framework carousel
      • Name your methodology (named frameworks become moats)
      • One slide per step, sequenced so it teaches itself
      • Save / share / citation job — the durable asset
      Take-home
      Your framework carousel — 7 slides, ready to publish.
    Also covered
    Op-EdPOV postFramework carouselBrand Blueprint validation
  4. Stretch reset
    Quick stand-up, refill, regroup — then back into the build.
    2:45 PM · 5 min
  5. 2:50 PM45 min
    Stage 4

    Distribution & Repurposing

    Convert one idea into five channels in 45 minutes — the multiplier most executives never operationalize because they don't have a team. The system replaces the team.

    3 essential tasks
    • 1
      One-shot syndication of the POV post
      • Push to LinkedIn + X + any other owned channel in one click
      • Native-format per platform (no generic cross-poster output)
      • Track which channel actually moves pipeline
      Take-home
      Your POV — already in five places.
    • 2
      Newsletter + keynote opener from the Op-Ed
      • Newsletter: subject line, preview text, full issue
      • Keynote opener: 5-min stage script + 3 Q&A points executives get asked
      • Same idea, three formats, same voice
      Take-home
      Newsletter issue + keynote opener + talking-points doc — ~$8K of agency labor done in 30 minutes.
    • 3
      Build the 14-day calendar
      • Pull the most quotable lines from the Op-Ed
      • Slice the carousel into single-slide social posts
      • Schedule across two weeks — cadence is a leadership discipline, not a marketing chore
      Take-home
      14 days of scheduled posts — auto-publishing starting tomorrow.
    Also covered
    Newsletter issueKeynote openerScheduled social calendarOne-shot syndication
  6. 3:35 PM25 min
    Stage 5

    The Compounding System

    Wire the operating system so you never need us, an agency, or a ghostwriter again. By the end of this block the question stops being 'what should I post?' and becomes 'which prompt do I run today?'

    3 essential tasks
    • 1
      Research → tailored outreach
      • Pick one named prospect, account, or target audience
      • Run the research → asset loop end-to-end
      • Send (or queue) the tailored output before you leave the block
      Take-home
      Pipeline proven on a real target — you can run it Monday.
    • 2
      Build the Sprint and the Arc
      • 30 days: one action per day, sequenced around pillar #1
      • 90 days: themes per issue, through-lines tied to the Blueprint
      • Both live in your workspace, both auto-update as you ship
      Take-home
      30-Day Sprint + 90-Day Arc — your next quarter is on the calendar.
    • 3
      Personal Brand Operating Manual
      • Document the 30-min weekly ritual (review · capture · approve)
      • Map content triggers: meetings, news cycles, performance signals → next asset
      • Lock the metrics that matter (and the ones that don't)
      Take-home
      Personal Brand Operating Manual — exportable PDF, yours to keep and hand off.
    Also covered
    30-day sprint90-day arcReusable presetsPersonal Brand Operating Manual
  7. 4:00 PM5 min
    Stage 6

    Commitments & the 90-day cadence

    Each executive states publicly to the room: the post going live today, the article going live this week, the 30-min weekly cadence they'll run for 90 days. Public commitment is the accountability mechanism.

    1 essential tasks
    • 1
      Make the three commitments out loud
      • Stand up, state the three commitments aloud
      • Block the recurring 30-min cadence on your actual calendar before you sit
      • Optional: opt into a 30-day check-in tier
      Take-home
      Three commitments said aloud — the accountability mechanism is live.
    Also covered
    Public commitmentCalendar block30-day check-in
  8. Close — commitments stated, cadence on the calendar
    You walk out with three public commitments, a recurring 30-min calendar block, and a brand that ships without you from here.
    4:05 PM ·

One afternoon. One door. 12 seats.

Walk in at 1:00 PM as a title on a slide. Walk out at 4:00 PM operating the system every other executive in your category will spend the next quarter trying to assemble.